Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA)

Graduate Research Assistantships (GRAs) support academic research at Nipissing University. Research assistantship support is administered by Research Services, the School of Graduate Studies and by faculty members who hold research grants or externally funded research contracts. GRAs provide graduate students with opportunities to work on research projects while enrolled in their graduate programs. All graduate assistantship work is considered to be diversionary from the student's main Major Research Paper (MRP) or Thesis research, and therefore graduate students are limited to a maximum of 10 hours of GTA/GRA work per week while enrolled in a full time program of studies. These payments are considered employment income by the university and tax deductions are made at source, with a T4 issued for tax purposes.